The beauty of having a car with whatever engine and what ever DSG is you can just go drive it.  See what it does rather than thinking too much about it.

Do double kickdowns, maybe put it in manual 1st and then floor it without changing gear and see if it changes up, or begs you too.

 

I have been doing that for 12 years with them in different cars.  Usually not with ones that i own, first try it with borrowed / hire ones.

3 hours ago, croquemonsieur said:

Jumping 2 gears would introduce delay and likely jerk the car, while the clutch and that same gearbox already in use, sorts things out. 

 

That's, in fact, what happens when you mash the throttle to overtake. Still quite tolerable.

smipx, I threatened to com back again about my MY19 1.0 DSG and how it behaves on the over-run on downhills.  I've had a couple of weeks to monitor this + there's a long 40mph moderately steep downhill main road near me, which can tell me more clearly how my car reacts, but hadn't gone that way for a few weeks, until this morning.

 

So approaching the top of this at near 40mph in Drive & car was in 6th, I let it coast down initially & it stayed in 6th as it got near 50mph.  Gently applying the brakes halfway down, to prevent it going any faster, it stayed in 6th (on the level at constant speed, or downhill, with a bit of throttle it would maybe have gone into 7th, but need to confirm that).  As I approached my Left turn off, I started using the brakes a little firmer and it stayed in 6th until I got down to just over 30mph, when it changed to 5th (no perceptible noise or engine braking) and then it changed down again to 4th as I approached the low 20s (again no perceptible noise or engine braking).

 

Apologies to anyone who finds that level of detail boring, but it does appear that the MY19 1.0 DSG behaves rather differently on downhills to the MY19 1.5 DSG and to other autos I've had previously.  My car does seem to want to stay in a high gear as much as possible - good job the Gear Lever Sport setting is so easy to engage (& disengage) for uphills & overtaking and got used to and like the high geared nature of the car.

 

I've also a little to say about Autohold, but I'll put that in the slightly later thread here on that topic.

Def different to mine!!

Odd isn't it?

Not really as you have a 1.5 TSI / ACT. 

Different modes for different roads.  Should be a song.

Edited 9 October, 20214 yr by e-Roottoot